Encore Question of October 11th, 2003.
Played at the Frog & Firkin in North York Ontario.

Answers:

  1. Red Hot Chili Peppers
  2. Pearl Jam
  3. Sublime
  4. Nirvana
  5. Smashing Pumpkins

Tonight I'm playing Playback with my two boards and a slew of friends. I thought with the hockey season starting up again there'd be more people show up and this was a good turnout. Richard BERGIE/ANOS (said he could spell a swear word in Spanish) and Don MOLLY were beside me and Bill MADDOG and Marlo ZIGGY were at a table some distance away. Don left at the end of TuneUp and passed his board to Kim MOLSON who was just arriving with Chris KELLY and didn't get a board in time for the first round. I was calling out most of the answers but Richard had one during OnBeat that I ignored and one in JukeBox that really helped.

My game so far had gone like this:
TuneUp...ROCKET...5000/5000...1st/9...my two boards co-win round with BERGIE/ANOS, MOLLY, ZIGGY and MADDOG. 
...........LITBOX...5000/5000...1st/9.
OnBeat...ROCKET...11000/14000...4th/16...ANOS, MOLSON/VIKING co-win round. 
..........LITBOX...11000/14000...4th/16.  6 right and 3 wrong was a bit of a slip-up.  Maybe with the team help I can
get above 20000 before the Encore question.
JukeBox...ROCKET...16181/20000...5th/14...MOLSON wins round.
...........LITBOX...19134/20000...4th/14...I got all the categories I wanted.
Triviaoke...ROCKET...232275/28000...1st/15...ROCKET wins round.
...........LITBOX...23245/28000...2nd/15...I didn't take a -250 tonight.  I was playing "If I Had $1,000,000" just 
two days ago on my Walkman.  That is strange as it is over ten years old but I just wanted to hear BareNaked 
Ladies "Gordon" album now that I have it on CD.  TuneUp questions are usually about just released albums
so those questions are expected "Hey I bought that this week".

Now the Encore answers come up. Kim says we should be able to get this.

Encore Question:...Hillel Slovak was the founding guitarist for this band:

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I don't know this. I can only eliminate Nirvana. Richard suggests Sublime. Sounds good because I don't know as much about them as the other groups. Both of mine are in for this answer then.

Correct Answer:....1. Red Hot Chili Peppers

[NTN Extra Fact:...Slovak died of a heroin overdose in 1988.]

Kim said Chris suggested this by naming the Extra Fact but I didn't hear this and none of us went for it. Another '1' answer. It seems to be 30-40% of the time. I remember an Encore question earlier this year "Knock Me Down" that I messed up too that was a Red Hot Chili Peppers song. [the answer to that one as I had to wait to get home was '4']. The TuneUp round often asks about the two more famous guys in the band: Who sings their songs? Anthony Kiedis or Flea? Their first hit single was in 1992.

I'm wrong but hold my position and win the game as ROCKET with only 11637 points. I finish 6385th in North America!. I earn only 1500+ Players Plus points for not meeting this week's standard of 21000. The bar finishes 1572nd in North America. [ntn.com site listed 1555 bars and moved us up to 270th].

Here's how the rest of the bar did: 
Player	preEncore	Final	Rank	ntn.com rank	
ROCKET	23275	x	11637   6385	1519
LITBOX	23245	x	11623	6390	1520
VIKING	22949	x	11475	6436	1544
ANOS	21682	x	10841	6633	1662
BERGIE	21154	x	10577	6715	1711
ZIGGY	20507	x	10253	6815	1784
MOLSON	17916	x	 8958	7217	2121
MADDOG	16879	x	 8439	????	2324
KELLY	16514	x	 8257	????	2400
LOCO	 9982	x	 7986	????	2507
KIRK	 9500	x	 4750	8524	4240	had gone home in JukeBox round
CITX	 9014	x	 4507	8600	4374
BUMKIN	 8666	x	 4333	8654	4461
STEEN?	 6871	x	 6184	8079	3442
BUNZ	 3889		 4667	8550	4282
[ntn.com listed 7110 players]

Other games:...I start the evening with 2,731,500 for ROCKET and 556,000 for LITBOX. (extra points I can't explain)
7:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...1817/15000...2nd/3...500+ points...I'm 8560th in NA...bar is 2181st.
.........LITBOX...1778/15000...3rd/3...500+ points...I'm 8591st in NA...IAMINU wins. I'm here in time for the last two questions.
8:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...11706/15000...1st/7...1000+ points...I'm 1266th in NA...bar is 138th.
...............LITBOX...11686/15000...2nd/7...1000+ points...I'm 1281st in NA.
8:30pm...RetroTV...ROCKET...14269/15000...1st/8...1000+ points...I'm 9th on the Network 20 in all of Canada.
..............LITBOX...14266/15000...2nd/8...1000+ points...I'm 10th in Canada...bar is 3rd in Canada with a 13185 average. This was a repeat game from last week that I played in London. The Oarhouse Sports Bar where I played last week finished 4th this week.
9:00pm...Playback (see above).
10:00pm...Countdown...ROCKET...10871/15000...1st/14...1000+ points...I'm 2212nd in NA...bar is 513rd.
............LITBOX...10828/15000...2nd/14...1000+ points...I'm 2242nd in NA.
10:30pm...Countdown...ROCKET...9639/15000...2nd/11...1000+ points...I'm 1569th in NA...bar is 41st.
............LITBOX...9618/15000...3rd/11...1000+ points...I'm 1588th in NA...KELLY wins.

I hadn't seen MOLSON or KELLY in almost a year. They have outlasted the staff that they didn't like here about two years ago that led to their boycott. They said they may start coming back here again but only occasionally. We could have a super team again if we have a good turnout. Nick IAMINU left early after finding a cockroach, "That's my fourth one", crawling along the bar counter.

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